22 COACHING. 



place in order tbat the passengers might enjoy 

 their tea, when they again proceeded on their 

 road, and were finally set down safely in 

 the Grassmarket of Edinburgh at eight o'clock 

 at night. 



About this period there was a ponderous 

 machine with six broad wheels, and drawn by 

 eight horses, called the Newcastle waggon. In 

 addition to passengers, it generally carried a 

 great portion of the Glasgow linen and cotton 

 manufactures to the London market. It travelled 

 at the rate of twenty-five miles a day, and was 

 three weeks upon the road between Glasgow 

 and London, resting always upon the Sundays. 

 At that time the best mode of conveyance from 

 Glasgow to the English capital was by a trading 

 vessel from Borrowstounness ; and so remarkable 

 w^as a sis^ht of London considered in Glasg'ow, 

 that a worthy citizen who bore the same 

 Christian and surname as another friend was, 

 after his return from London, distinguished as 

 " London John." 



The use of stage-coaches rapidly extended it- 

 self, and there was scarcely a town through 

 which some stage-coach did not pass. After a 

 time, the heavy six-inside lumbering vehicle gave 

 way to the light four-inside fast coach ; and from 



